There is a survey going on in an attempt to narrow the ping gap between regions that could benefit from servers in the pacific. This may make it possible to have sub 100ms gaming between places such as the US West, East Coast Australia and New Zealand which would probably be of great value to communities like QuakeWorld, CPMA and Quake Live etc.

"I am trying to gauge some interest on whether a gaming service that bridged the pacific ocean and allowed for sub 100ms gaming between East Coast Australia, New Zealand and West Coast USA would be viable. In the future it could be expanded to include Japan, Guam and Polynesian Islands. West Coast USA based players would achieve around ~50ms ping with Central states being higher.
The setup of such a service would require physical servers to be hosted in a Hawaiian Datacenter, Internet connectivity with multiple ISP's (to ensure direct routing to each country) and this would come at a considerable cost.

The initial goal would be to have permanent servers for games which would benefit the most with the expansion of their player base such as the Quake series and its derivatives.

The end goal would be to allow game developers could also rent service space to give their games a permanent server in this unique location and in addition to permanent servers, a service would be offered where tournament admins could rent server time on a temporary basis for other popular games in order for players to compete in specific tournaments or events with a larger player base spanning the Pacific."

life itself is a waste of money and resources, doesnt mean we should not put in an effort . Why ? because why not if you want to , as long as it doesnt harm anyone.

Åke vader? isnt he the QW guy ? well in a game like qw especially where there a shortage of players, the ability to play vs people over long distances are great. But this is also true with other games , you might want to duel some guy they say is good over there , or you got a friend long ways away etc.

my point is , for a freckin survey , there are reasons enough . But not enough resons to act like a dick .

It's been 20 years and my ping from Seattle, WA, USA to populated arena FPS servers is still almost always 100+. It's pretty hilarious that our infrastructure is so bad since we're supposed to be some kind of global tech hub (Microsoft, Amazon, Valve, etc.). This is the #1 reason why I no longer play arena FPS games.

I'm not sure you can fix the problem by simply paying for a few more servers. What we need are tier 1 ISPs with a financial incentive to minimize the number of hops for any given connection. The economy cares far more about bandwidth than latency.

If my memory serves me right there was a q2ctf server on Iceland that worked pretty well for transatlantic games, most ppl where on 56.6 or isdn though. Could be worth testing today? Any quakers living on Iceland present?